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Held at gunpoint, with minutes to leave: How Syria evicts Alawites from their homes

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: Armed individuals evicted people without a court order, prevented them from taking their belongings, and then moved in.

 SINCE SYRIA’S President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in December, hundreds of Alawites have been forced from their private homes in Damascus by the security forces. Here, a man marches with a sign depicting a collage of pictures of victims of the recent wave of sectarian violence, targeting Syria’s
Druze gather to contact their relatives on the Syrian side of the border from the Israeli Golan Heights.

More than a dozen killed in sectarian clashes near Syrian capital

 A Syrian Alawite family rides on a truck to return home, in Latakia, Syria March 13, 2025.

Syria's sectarian violence reached capital, terrorizing Alawites, residents say

 European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen meet with foreign ministers of different Middle Eastern states, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to discuss developments in Syria, on Dec. 14, 2024.

Minorities abandoned: Europe's double standard on Islamist oppression in the Middle East - opinion


Russia urges Syrians sheltering at Hmeimim air base to leave

Alawites seeking asylum headed towards the Russian air base earlier in March. Russia has distanced itself from the responsibility of protecting the civilians who turned to its base for safety.

 This aerial picture shows cars queing as civilians take refuge from violence at the Hmeimim Russian base in Syria's Latakia Mediterranean province on March 11, 2025.

Syria’s Christians fear for future after deadly sectarian violence

Recent sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal region deepened fears among the shrinking Christian minority about their future and prompting church leaders to urge national reconciliation.

Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria, on March 7, 2025.

Syrians trickle home from sanctuary at Russian air base

Some Syrians trickle home from a Russian air base after sectarian killings, but many still fear for their safety.

 Syrian Alawite woman Rana Bousheh, 34, leaves the Hmeimim air base with her family, to return to her village, in Latakia, Syria March 13, 2025.

Silence speaks volumes: Media coverage of Syrian Alawite killings must be criticized - editorial

This is exactly the kind of violence that should have international media splashing over, but it didn’t get the attention it deserves.

A man assists a those who fled the violence in western Syria, at the Nahr El Kabir River. March 11, 2025.

Alawite Syrians to 'Post': We need Israel's help from jihadist atrocities - exclusive

“Al-Sharaa’s forces are carrying out ethnic cleansing against the ‘infidels,’” a Syrian Alawite told the Jerusalem Post

 A man receives a blanketed child from another crossing the Nahr al-Kabir river, forming the border between Syria's western Latakia province and northern Lebanon in the Hekr al-Daher area on March 11, 2025, as families from Syria's Alawite minority enter Lebanon to flee from sectarian violence